What Time Does ‘Borderlands 3’ Launch Today? That Depends

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Borderlands 3 arrives, technically, today on PC and a bit later on console in a staggered release schedule I don’t fully understand, but will attempt to explain here. The rollout has been a bit confusing with PC review codes live the past two weeks, then there have been console review/preview codes live the past few days. Now today marks the launch of PC later tonight and console way later tonight.

So, what are the times? Here’s the console release schedule for Borderlands 3, which more or less follows your typical midnight launch for a release day:

CONSOLE:

September 12, 2019 - 21:00 PDT

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 EDT

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 BRT

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 BST

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 CEST

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 SAST

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 MSK

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 SGT

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 JST

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 AEST

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 NZST

So, that’s midnight everywhere except the Pacific Time Zone in the US, which gets it three hours early because of the time difference. But everywhere else is synced up to midnight local time.

Borderlands 3

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PC is a little different, and that’s what I’m going to be playing, and it seems like I’ll be able to get a decent chunk of playtime in tonight:

PC:

September 12, 2019 - 16:00 PDT

September 12, 2019 - 19:00 EDT

September 12, 2019 - 20:00 BRT

September 13, 2019 - 00:00 BST

September 13, 2019 - 01:00 CEST

September 13, 2019 - 01:00 SAST

September 13, 2019 - 02:00 MSK

September 13, 2019 - 07:00 SGT

September 13, 2019 - 08:00 JST

September 13, 2019 - 09:00 AEST

September 13, 2019 - 11:00 NZST

I’m not sure why this one is so varied, but at least here in the US, that means that on the west coat players can player Borderlands 3 at 4 PM ET, and on the east coast that’s 7 PM ET. This is D-day for me when I figure out if my saves from my two weeks of review build play transfer. I have them backed up, I’m ready to go, but I won’t know until tonight if I get to keep all that progress or start over from scratch. Pray for me.

I’ve decided that even if for some reason my saves don’t end up transferring, I’m going to stick with PC as my main. I just got too used to it while playing the review build, and switching to console would be weird now. I don’t exactly have a stellar PC these days as mine’s getting old, but it’s good enough and putting BL3 on my SSD there, I was able to avoid really any issues with load times, and my framerate is solid. But I might pick up a console copy just to play with some of my buddies on PS4 with alt characters.